Is it really ART?

[LTR12101B]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...92983,,00.html

Everyone's a critic - including the cleaner who threw out the object that's about as artistic as a clear bag of recycling waste ... hold on, it IS a clear bag of recycling waste.

Just one of a whole category of "junk art", like Tracy Emin's notorious unmade bed, and a whole load of other ridiculous things.

I'd say the simplest measure of "art" is - would you rate it as art, if it wasn't by somebody already declared to be an artist?

[VIPER_1069]

lol why does this not surprise me lol !?

a pile of bricks is art and elephants splashing paint about is art so why not rubbish/trash !?

i think im gunna make a million and use clear plastic sacks now and sell four or five a week !?


lmao

[The-poacher]

"Art is in the eye of the beholder"

But hey if u can get mugs to pay for this shi*e good on yer!!!

[janiedriver]

Not my idea of art, but people seem to have an awful lot of money nowadays to just throw away. When I do paintings, I get emotionally involved in them. They come about with blood, sweat and tears and look like what they are supposed to be. I would be ashamed of myself to display a bag of garbage or an unmade bed as a sample of my talents. I work and rework, and could not produce a "replacement" on demand if my life depended on it.

[catachresis]

None of the big-shot art critics agree about the 'value' of art. Most of the current hip conceptual artists -- like the British ponces named above -- argue that the mode of new art is to demonstrate just how bankrupt the very concept of art really is.

Then again, while the critics frequently equivocate as to the means of evaluating art, now that its exclusivity is challenged and the old standards of beauty, harmony, originality, etc. are in dispute -- FEW DEALERS HAVE TROUBLE GIVING A ROUGH ESTIMATE AS TO HOW MUCH A PARTICULAR ART OBJECT IS WORTH. $$$$

Good old Tracy Emin challenges bourgeois art values, but she was pissed-off when art-terrorists (sic) defaced her stuff.

Best new distinction I've heard came from the recent BBC Sequel to 'The Shock of the New': -- the world is full of 'fast art' that is observed, immediately comprehended, consumed-accepted-rejected-ignored and then forgotten as we pass on to the next shallow image. The challenge is to create 'slow art' that has elements of intricacy, depth, craft and meaningful context that egage us and cause us to become involved in its exploration.


Link to the Beeb's "New Shock of the New": http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documen...hock-new.shtml

[LTR12101B]

Try this test then (quickly, as the pages tend not to be available for more than a day or two).

Tate or Tat, Gallery or garbage tip?

I'm ashamed to say, I got every one of them RIGHT.

[janiedriver]

I got 3 wrong!

[Lynxcds]

I must be an art critic got all 5 right, Im in the wrong job